The top 10 also features Count Arthur Strong, which transferred Steve Delaney’s cult Radio 4 hit to TV, in fourth place, followed by Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd and Armando Iannucci’s political satire The Thick Of It.

James Corden and Ruth Jones’s hit Gavin & Stacey is seventh, followed by Miranda Hart’s sitcom Miranda, and Raised By Wolves by Caitlin Moran, which was recently axed by Channel 4 after its second series.

Outnumbered, the BBC hit about family life starring Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner, is tenth.

Benidorm is 19th, the only sitcom from ITV in the poll cast from 14,000 votes from a shortlist compiled by Radio Times critics and experts from the British Film Institute.